Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well worn button, a lock of hair, a bit of bedraggled gold braid, and a wedding ring-such are four relics beyond price which were presented to the Japanese Empire, last week at Tokyo, by the U. S. Ambassador, that puissant, cultured and droopy -mustached Manhattan lawyer Charles MacVeigh...
Each relic nestled in a case of gold, each case was enclosed in a sturdy wooden box, and Tiffany & Co. of Manhattan was the firm which was chosen to envelop the button, hair, braid and ring in suitable magnificence. Last week Japanese were pleased & honored to receive these four gifts, be cause all are authentic mementoes of intrepid U. S. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858), who opened up Japan to Occidental influence...
Therefore it was appropriate in the extreme, last week, that the Perry relics should have been accepted by Shogun-descended Prince Tokugawa, and not by the present Sublime Emperor of Japan, Hirohito, whose ancestors never so much as laid eyes upon Commodore Perry, or his button, braid, hair, ring...
...Narrowly speaking, Ambassador MacVeigh made the presentation from the U. S. on behalf of three descendants of Commodore Perry who contributed the relics. The donor of the button and the braid was great-granddaughter Mrs. Henry Bartol, and the hair (set in a diamond brooch) & ring respectively by granddaughters Mrs. Charles E. Lewis and Miss Jane Perry Tiffany. The Commodore had four sons, six daughters. Consequently his descendants are now numerous, widely scattered...
With a harp on his back, James McLarnin, 135-lb. Irishman from Los Angeles, stepped through the ropes of a ring at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, and smiled genially at Lightweight Champion Samuel Mandell. A great shout went up. As is usual in Manhattan, the shout was for the wearer of the harp. Champion Mandell had been too long in retirement to win favor. He came out of his corner to win it now. On the cherubic face of Harp-wearer McLarnin he dropped jabs that soon closed an eye, caused bumps to rise and blood to trickle. Nervy...